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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「一事不知」, with more below.

Discover the idiom 「一事不知」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

metaphor for the lack of knowledge. Same as “knowing nothing”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī shì bù zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 si6 bat1 ji1

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